Cheeky Devlin wrote:I miss the good old days when it seemed like every other week some company would come out with it's own system.

Been looking into the PC Engine, Amiga CD32 and a few other older systems that never made much of an impact over here and some of them are really interesting. Thinking about picking one or two up and building up a collection of weird and wonderful titles.

Did CD32 have many exclusive titles? I'm pretty sure since the machine was essentially an Amiga 1200 that most of the games were Amiga ports.

A quick Google took me to an old post on an Amiga forum that listed these as exclusive Amiga CD32 games,

IAmTheSantaMan wrote:After getting an email about pre-orders the other day just this morning I got another email stating the launch countdown has been paused.

Hmmn... it just seems super-hard to get detail on exactly what the machine is. I hope things turn out positively but I gotta admit that I’ll be cautious about diving in for this until way more is known about it.

It's pretty clear to me it's a box with a brand on it and maybe a microcomputer running some emulators that would work on a watch. Oh and you can stick your finger in it and twist to emulate the original padel control for Pong, amongst other things.

IAmTheSantaMan wrote:After getting an email about pre-orders the other day just this morning I got another email stating the launch countdown has been paused.

Hmmn... it just seems super-hard to get detail on exactly what the machine is. I hope things turn out positively but I gotta admit that I’ll be cautious about diving in for this until way more is known about it.

There's a reason they aren't telling people what it is and that's because they're trying to get as many pre-orders as possible based purely on rose tinted nostalgia.

Seriously though, that is the real reason, they will retroactively get venture capital for it based on pre-orders pretty much guaranteeing it will be a poorly conceived muddle of a product with virtually no post- launch window support. We call this test trading. The follow up product might be good but early adopters beware. The trouble is you can't test trade on an microelectronics product due to the volumes involved, so you get a stupid amount of preorders and money down on literally a non-existent product. Crowdsourcing is a dream come true for dead brands with half baked ideas trying to reinvigorate their IP. I don't feel it's quite the same for investors and the like with actual risks involved and lack of capital but these big brands can strawberry float off in my opinion.

As much as I'd love this to be great I have a feeling it's going to be an absolute joke. It will maybe play some pc games but anything like the Total War series which if it can run on low or maybe medium would get me interested is so unlikely as to be not even worth looking at a pre-order.If they were more open and looked like they are enthusiastic about their own product (They should look at the Sea of Thieves developers to see just how genuine enthusiasm can help) they may generate some hype but this being mysterious idea is just not helping.

My favourite part is the quotes on the website saying this will be the greatest console and I'm so looking forward to it etc. When it isn't even a real thing yet.

Plus all the logos spammed across the page from big names it has merely been "featured in" but without really explaining that. As if you're forgetting this is an unreleased product with pretty much no information about it.

Marketing genius.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is literally just primarily a marketing product to get more eyes on the Atari brand as is continues to change hands every few years and dwindle into something of no value whatsoever in the current gaming industry. Good work Infogrames.